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Monday, March 21, 2016

FINALS UPDATE: 60 Minutes (1.6), Madam Secretary (1.1) and The Carmichael Show (1.3) adjusted down, along with the repeat of The Simpsons (0.9).

It was another Little Big Shots Sunday on broadcast TV, as the new hit dropped 10%ish in its second week to a 2.6 demo rating with 13.2 million total viewers. The Carmichael Show matched last week's final 1.4 at 9/8c (though it was a 1.5 in the prelims last week), and Crowded collapsed to 1.0 in its first Sunday 9:30 airing. Though it had looked fine in its Tuesday preview, this rating leaves Crowded with little case for a switch with Carmichael. Hollywood Game Night hung a weak 0.7 at 10/9c.

Fox tried to take advantage of the holiday season with another dip in the live musical event pool. But The Passion (1.6) couldn't even get to half the rating of January's Grease Live! (4.3) or even NBC's December entry The Wiz Live! (3.4). It managed just two thirds the rating of Peter Pan Live! in 2014 (2.4), the previous standard for disappointment in this space. It was still an improvement on the network's usual comedy ratings on this night, but not by a huge margin.

The Passion had little lead-in support from another new Ice Age holiday special at 7:30 (0.8), which dropped from its repeat The Simpsons lead-in (1.0).

As last year, it was the second Sunday after DST when the ABC pain came; Once Upon a Time (1.1) took a two-tenth hit, while The Family (0.7) and Quantico (1.0) also inched down to new lows.

And CBS had just over a 30-minute overrun from NCAA basketball, preliminarily boosting 60 Minutes (1.7) but not doing a whole lot for Madam Secretary (1.2/1.1) or The Good Wife (1.0). It also bumped the timeslot premiere of Elementary largely out of primetime, but we know it averaged just a 0.8 in the 10:30 half-hour (which would be toward the low end of CSI: Cyber's results in the slot).

FULL TABLE:

Name

A18-49

Skew

Last

Lastn

LeLa

wy2y

TLa

Ty2y

True

Last

America's Funniest Home Videos

1.1

26%

0%

0.0

-15%

0%

-15%

1.14

-0.08

Once Upon a Time

1.1

40%

-15%

-0.2

0.0

-39%

-15%

-39%

1.13

-0.39

The Family

0.7

34%

-13%

-0.1

-0.2

-13%

-50%

0.65

-0.15

Quantico

1.0

36%

-9%

-0.1

-0.1

-9%

-9%

1.07

-0.28

ABC:

-9%

-30%

60 Minutes

1.6

20%

+33%

+0.4

+7%

+33%

+7%

1.59

+0.29

Madam Secretary

1.1

15%

0%

0.0

+0.3

-8%

+57%

-8%

0.97

+0.12

The Good Wife

1.0

16%

+11%

+0.1

0.0

0%

+43%

0%

0.89

+0.10

Elementary

0.8

19%

-20%

-0.2

-0.6

-43%

-20%

-11%

0.83

-0.32

CBS:

+25%

-2%

Little Big Shots (R)

1.1

20%

-8%

+38%

1.14

Little Big Shots

2.6

25%

-7%

-0.2

-0.1

-7%

+225%

2.36

-0.41

The Carmichael Show

1.3

33%

+18%

+0.2

+1.2

-7%

+44%

0.97

-0.04

Crowded

1.0

34%

-29%

-0.4

-0.4

-9%

+11%

0.86

-0.50

Hollywood Game Night

0.7

33%

-13%

-0.1

-0.1

-13%

-22%

0.73

-0.25

NBC:

-8%

+63%

The Simpsons (R)

0.9

46%

+12%

+29%

1.07

Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade

0.8

40%

-20%

-20%

0.77

The Passion

1.6

31%

+39%

+3%

1.53

Fox:

+27%

+3%

All:

+6%

+3%

The full table can be sorted by clicking any of the category names at the top. Hover over 'Last', 'y2y' and timeslot numbers for more information on the previous episode(s) being compared.